When did this country become so hateful?

Seems to me it started during the Reagan years - the faux-Gipper sure knew how to get that ball rolling, with his Bircher-friendly 'card-carrying member of the ACLU' campaign; his chuckling over the AIDS epidemic and the subsequent decimation of the gay population; his racist and stupid 'welfare queen' crapola; and his repeal of the Fairness Doctrine which set Rush Limbaugh's fat ass and foul tongue free.

Now it all comes to fruition.

I think it's time someone proposed that illegal immigrants be made to wear yellow six-pointed stars. In keeping with the season and all.

Glenn Beck

is a fuckwit. An ugly, racist, narcissistic, psychopathic fuckwit.

That is all.

Wouldn't it be ironic

if Arizona was rejected so thoroughly by the rest of the country for its racist, hateful, police-state mentality that it was retaken by Mexico, and all those redneck assholes with their signs protesting illegal immigrants became illegal immigrants themselves?

Tiene tarjeta de identificación? No? Sigueme.

Heh. Well, a person can dream.

Conventional wisdom.

I really hate it. Conventional wisdom is what the Beltway bozos spout, which the news media picks up, which tells the public what to think, which sets the original idiotic murmurs in cement. And so we all 'know' a bunch of shit which wouldn't be true if we hadn't all been assured that it's conventional wisdom.

Conventional wisdom once had it that the world was flat. That illness could be cured by bleeding. That flies spontaneously generated from garbage.

More recently the conventional wisdom stated that the American public was not ready for a black President, that Americans opposed health insurance reform, that the Republican party was better at keeping the country safe, that Democrats spend recklessly while Republicans spend responsibly.

Will the conventional wisdom ever catch up with reality? Probably not, or at least not until the clowns inside the Beltway are lured outside for a helping of real life. In the meantime, we must all take care. The liars aren't our eyes, but their forked tongues.